Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 GA Released

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 GA

Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment.

Release Highlights:

Introduction of Flyway to manage schema along with various schema tweaks.

Option to delete a release along with its package.

Refined the REST API.

Updated properties to YAML converter.

Add resource metadata in manifest template.

Separate platform deployers into multiple maven modules.

Support passing to the shell commands to execute.

Updated documentation.

Various bug fixes.

What’s next?

The 1.0 GA feature set was primarily driven by the needs of Spring Cloud Data Flow to deploy message-driven applications. Future releases plan to improve how http routing is managed during upgrade/rollback and to support templating of Cloud Foundry application manifests.